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f.lie bowels and mercy of a friend, whicl) 
most want; and lastly, must have faith- 
fulness, the great ingredieiU ; if such an 
one yon can find, you shall enjay their 
experiences freely, you sludl constantiy 
be carried to God in their prayers, you 
shall have sympathy aiid lielp in your 
troubles. The spirit of Clir st is a 
liealing, saving spirit, and such is theirs; 
to such open your lieart clearly, who will 
never upbraid you for confessions; and 
know when foundations shake, yon will 
need a master-builder or workman, such 
is a good friend and wise. To get such 
an one, must be your care; and to keep, 
must be your diligence; walk not un¬ 
worthy of the mercy if you gain it. 
Kinsman will not make it, no, nor a 
brother, though born for adversity. Your 
hopes may be^these, if the Lord promise; 
'zchen your zcays pleas hi/n, pour enemies 
shall he at peace zoith you : he can raise 
a friend and himself he your best friend ; 
to whom I commend you, dear child. 
18. And because sin w'ill be creeping 
into all your conditions, ways, and works, 
something I must advise you about it 
from experience, though many books are 
written about it-; as Mr. Goodwyns Sin- 
fulness of Sin, S^c. Yet two things take 
from me; be marvellous careful it break 
not in; secondly, as diligent to dnve it 
out speedily. 
A little sin Is sin, down with it, keep 
your guard, and hate it in all the torrage 
that may maintain such an enemy; I 
mean, in the occasions leading to it; in 
which Z might be large. On with all 
your armour speedily; and when you 
find it hatii bespotted you, do as a good 
liousewife with her linen, get a washing- 
day, I mean a fasting-day, out with it by 
liand, laver, bucking. 
19. And next (because bordering upon 
what went before) I would add a case, 
which so often, even choice Christians 
are incumbred with, and that is, their 
questioning all their works after many 
years experience and profession; and 
their objections, many against them¬ 
selves; as from sins before conversion, 
in conversioiij after it; repeated sins 
.against judgment, mercy, light, means; 
yea, even cutting purses under the gai- 
lovvs, against ail exampdes, and what not. 
This, therefore, I would have you 
know, that, though it be ,not safe to dig 
at foundations often, lest we shake the 
building; so our .great care is to have 
sound foundations to build upon, which 
in the general is Chi ist, and other none 
•an lay : make quick work, and see you 
he in Christ, and ofTer your evidences to 
a discerning friend, or more; and knoiv, 
that God hath limited his tenders of- 
grace to a day of this life, of the gospel,, 
and of conscience awakened; therefore 
look out uhile it is to-day. 
But if you have your share in Clirist, 
though hardly discerned, make much of 
it, you need walk very iiumblv, very 
holily ; do not question continually us 
some do, Psal 13, 1, love the Lord who 
hath been your strength, and will answer 
all thy hard questions, dear child. 
To be concluded in our next, 
Brooke's Universal Beauty. 1735. 
IN' 1778 were collected in four thin 
volumes the poems and plays of Henry 
Brooke, esq. The first volume exactly 
comprises a didactic poem in six books, 
entitled Universal Beauty. I'his repub¬ 
lication, though noticed in the reviews, 
was little observed by the public, atid 
would perhaps never have attained the 
degree of attention which among literary 
idlers it begins to assert, but for the cir¬ 
cumstance that it lias serveil as a model 
to Dr. Darwin. Those peculiarities, 
whether vicious or meritorious, which 
characterize his style, already appear in 
embryo, distinctly formed in Brooke’s 
Universal Beauty. Some passagesj 
which illustrate liiis fact, may be inte¬ 
resting to your readers : to frame in smooth 
verse the technical terms of science was 
in 1735, wlien the first edition appeared, 
a novelty. 
And first the eternal hand earth’s spacious 
bosom sow’d, 
The globe, now pregnant, yields nutritious 
food, 
Lymphatic dews, their mild diluting flood 5 ■ 
The sun affords his rarifying sphere, 
And ether breaches its actuating air, 
Quadruple round the temper’d embryo meet. 
And its fine teguoaent fermenting greet; 
Whence subtle juices pierce the filmy skin, > 
Repeating vigorous their attacks withio; 
1 hence thro’ the lobes with percolation 
strain, 
And thence infusing thro’ their radix drain ; 
With swoln repletion thro’ the portals float. 
And now unclasp the nice cutaneous coat j 
The radicle now obvious they imfold, 
And to its infant lips their liquors hold. 
Th’ instinctive lips imbibe the gentle tide, 
And tliro’ the veins the milky liquids glide. 
Ascending visit the inclusive plume, 
Where Nature wantons in minutest 'room, 
Where folded close her implicated size. 
Of trunk, branch, leaf, and future semen, 
rise. 
Around tire plume the guardian lobes repair. 
And fence their minor from inciement air; 
With 
